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From General to Specific: Online Updating for Blind Super-Resolution

2021-07-06 05:25:16
Shang Li, Guixuan Zhang, Zhengxiong Luo, Jie Liu, Zhi Zeng, Shuwu Zhang

Abstract

Most deep learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods are not image-specific: 1) They are exhaustively trained on datasets synthesized by predefined blur kernels (\eg bicubic), regardless of the domain gap with test images. 2) Their model weights are fixed during testing, which means that test images with various degradations are super-resolved by the same set of weights. However, degradations of real images are various and unknown (\ie blind SR). It is hard for a single model to perform well in all cases. To address these issues, we propose an online super-resolution (ONSR) method. It does not rely on predefined blur kernels and allows the model weights to be updated according to the degradation of the test image. Specifically, ONSR consists of two branches, namely internal branch (IB) and external branch (EB). IB could learn the specific degradation of the given test LR image, and EB could learn to super resolve images degraded by the learned degradation. In this way, ONSR could customize a specific model for each test image, and thus could be more tolerant with various degradations in real applications. Extensive experiments on both synthesized and real-world images show that ONSR can generate more visually favorable SR results and achieve state-of-the-art performance in blind SR.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02398

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02398.pdf


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